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Born c.1400 • Rottweil • Germany
Died c.1445 • Geneva • Basel • Switzerland
Movement / Style Late Gothic art

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“The Miraculous Draft of Fishes,” tempera on panel by Konrad Witz, 1444; in the Museum of Art and History, Geneva
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German artist
Peter Paul Rubens: self-portrait
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Flemish artist
Nicolas Poussin: Adoration of the Golden Calf
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French painter
Lucas Cranach, the Elder
German painter
Bellini, Giovanni: Saint Jerome Reading
Giovanni Bellini
Italian painter
Baptism of Christ
Masolino
Italian painter
“Battle of Alexander at Issus,” detail of an oil painting on panel by Albrecht Altdorfer, 1529; in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Albrecht Altdorfer
German artist
Cima da Conegliano, Giovanni Battista: Saint Helena
Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano
Italian painter
Wolf Huber
Austrian artist
Paolo Uccello
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Hans Holbein, the Elder
German painter
Michael Pacher: The Devil Presenting St. Augustine with the Book of Vices
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Austrian artist
“Madonna of the Rose Bower,” painting on wood by Stefan Lochner; in the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne
Stefan Lochner
German painter
Saint Anne with the Virgin and Child
Michael Wolgemut
German artist
Rembrandt: Self-Portrait
Rembrandt
Dutch artist
Leonardo da Vinci: self-portrait
Leonardo da Vinci
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Venus of Urbino by Titian
Titian
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Giotto: Lamentation
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Burial of the Count de Orgaz
El Greco
Greek artist
Raphael: The Grand Duke's Madonna
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